GeForce RTX 4070 Ti vs RTX 3060 GA104

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated6
Place by popularitynot in top-10095
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data48.90
Power efficiencyno data19.86
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA104AD104
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2021 (3 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$329 $799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores35847680
Core clock speed1320 MHz2310 MHz
Boost clock speed1777 MHz2610 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate199.0626.4
Floating-point processing power12.74 TFLOPS40.09 TFLOPS
ROPs4880
TMUs112240
Tensor Cores112240
Ray Tracing Cores2860

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length242 mm285 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount12 GB12 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1875 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth360.0 GB/s504.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.68.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2021 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 285 Watt

RTX 3060 GA104 has 67.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 4070 Ti, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3060 GA104 and GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GA104
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